To a film by german director them vendors hunt go with vendors also cowrote the script to german film classic wings of desire. But hunka is a controversial choice he supported serbia during the yugoslav war and even spoke at the funeral of former serb leader Slobodan Milosevic a man accused of genocide. And usually. The winner of the 28. 00 team nobel prize for literature is polish author olga. Her best known work is primeval and other times from 1906. The story of 80 years in the fictional town of primeval exemplifies the qualities the jury praised in the 57 year old author her powerful imagination a literary style full of wit and cunning and her focus on themes of migration and cultural transitions. Before becoming a writer to car truck worked as a therapist for challenge to. Pull is director of the holland adapted to car tricks novel drive your plow over the phones of the dead for the screen the film won a silver bayer at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017. The literature nobel prize was not awarded last year due to a. A series of scandals involving this man. The husband of one of the Swedish Academy members are know was accused of Sexual Assault and is currently serving a 2 Year Prison Sentence for rape. He was also accused of misuse of Academy Funds and of using his insider knowledge to bet on former prize winners. And joining me now. To talk about that a minute lets talk about the winners for what do you think of these 2 womens yeah its interesting i mean you mentioned they are both europeans but i think you have hardly picked 2 more different writers i mean. Chuck shes fairly young for a Nobel Prize Winner shes just 57. 00 which is quite young to win this type of award and shes quite shes also quite a bit of an activist shes shes known for being quite wild are known for her her black dreadlocks and being an environmentalist and and her style as well is quite wild as sort of cosmopolis politan its its about characters switching between languages and cultures and shes very very political i mean shes a very sharp critic of polands right wing government and even today she was todays announcement of the nobel prize to make a political point she said that the prize shows that despite problems with the mocker see in poland we still have something to say and. Is quite a different kettle of fish yeah no peter im very very much so he said i dont know maybe to call one of the last grand old man of european literature i mean if it is more wild in her style is very buttoned down i mean his style hes known for these sort of alter of ject of pared down descriptions of characters even the characters themselves are sometimes kind of wild but very much a restrained style. And i believe he had something to say though i mean he he said something a few years ago yes yes of course he kind of funnily 5 years back he said that the nobel prize itself should be abolished didnt see the point of it probably feels a little bit different i was going to feel different indeed he has spoken to the press lets see what he had to say today about rights for the future. Long as its not this is another arena. You know what no i did they chose my work but im not my nature is not the nature of arena but all or as they say he won the nobel prize i did i dont like this just this expression with the reading of it and she gives her yeah its a kind of a feel strange kind of freedom i dont know. Doma. Which is not the truth and you know. Ok now how high respect is the rights of we heard a bit about it in the report highly controversial for other reasons you know its interesting again i say these 2 writers are very very different i mean if its more an anti nationalist has gotten in trouble for being a pro nationalist particularly across serbia and i mean he spoke at the funeral of the last which the controversial serbian leader and former dictator of yugoslavia and hes been seen by many as being an apologist for for serbia nationalism so not really the safe choice for the nobel not really the p. C. Choice and now off to the scandal. Promised big changes how do you think doing yeah it was interesting because last year series of scandals they said they have they postponed suspended the prize last year because they said weve lost the confidence of the public we have to get it restored and they promised not only to make internal changes but also to make the prize more diverse to to take it away from its sort of traditional male centered and euro centric approach but here theyve given 2 prizes to european writers and one to hunt whos probably the most mail in euro centric writer you could you could think of so i think theres still a lot of work to be done done there but well have to see maybe maybe they will make changes maybe this is just the beginning but so far i think its a work in progress now i do know that your all the favorite does a canadian new humping. Model would yeah yeah i mean she was often of the fan favorite id suggest that would obviously Canadian Writer huge bestseller also in the news of course because she just brought out the testaments her sequel to her famous handmaids tale book i think she was the fan favorite. Maybe she was a little bit too popular if you know the cool kids of the Swedish Academy left as it may be next to them now let me do you think do you think yeah do you think this is too popular a mission and its interesting because the nobel prize tends to give their awards to sort of more of your writers theyve got a couple popular ones of famously a couple years ago Dylan Bob Dylan which was a very very controversial choice maybe wood has been punished for being a bit too successful she said sometimes that shes not deliberately a bestselling author that shes actually a literary writer but happens to sell a lot of books but maybe i would like to see the academy you know maybe occasionally pay to play to the crowd and pick a writer that people heard of scott thanks very much should just quickly mention the page and hung because book short let alone for a while is one of the books featured in our series 100 joan must reads rhymes. Everybody around the World Associates the peaceful revolution of nice 9 that brought about the downfall of communist east germany with this is city berlin the fall of the bubble in wall but the revolution actually got underway in the eastern german city of like sync with demonstrations after monday prayers in the St Nicholas Church that the 1st major demo was 30 years ago on october the 9th and the man who behind the scenes was hugely influential in these demos not being violently crushed was not the great conductor caught months or. Sick nights out the city is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the peaceful revolution that led to the form of the berlin wall thousands turn out with candles it was here back in 190970000 people gathered for a decisive protest that proved a catalyst for change this wave carrying from this they came from but who went this way to go all over the east germany and then this power over the people could destroy could you know for you know. Very war and then it went to it are you viewing if it cation that this nation is united. Or is the widow of cooked womans or back then the man in charge of the leipsic event house orchestra the famous conductor showed immense courage negotiating with the communist authorities in order to avert a bloodbath leipsic has him to thank that Security Forces drew back from a violent suppression of the protests every musician was so worrying about their to the teenager children and so they every monday on the street exactly like my my my husband i dont think he had here i think rather he had more responsibility. She think that this possibility that he has overcome the fear. 30 years on many turn out to march along the historical demonstration route light installations eliminate the buildings along the way just as back then todays march followed prayers offered in the St Nicholas Church this was a focal point of the peaceful revolution many participants today were at the original protests and have concerns about the present day. My hope is that we remain watchful and wide awake we dont fall for false promises that we hold on to the things we gained through the events of that time when did i just dumb a married person its very important that we carry the energy of this 9th of october of the peaceful revolution into the present day its important for young people to see that the seemingly impossible can become possible if people just act and. Joined in calculated in beethovens 9th symphony one of the singers here is carolyn the daughter of the great conductor she feels a duty towards and is inspired by her fathers actions. I have to write not to shut anyone else i will speak at the door of this home open to all sorts of people and to discussion groups. And i believe we need to do this in the future. That we have spaces open for all citizens concerns i think that would be something my father would have wished for and. Those messages more relevant than ever the joy to have when it is shared by many but democracy and freedom have to be defended in each new generation. And of course we will have full coverage of all. Well the celebrations surrounding the 30th anniversary of the full of the bowl in bowl over the next month with lots of special programs goes the website at d. W. Dot com for more information about not so for now though by. The. W. C. 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